THE POLISH WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1920, Page 8

THE POLISH WAR.

BOLSHEVIKS ADVANCE. fij TeleerapU.—Press Assn.--Copyright. London, July 22. The War Office announces that the Bolsheviks have occupied Seiny, witliin the Polish boundary. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH NOTE TO RUSSIA. * London, July 23. A Britisli Note to Russia points out It also announces that Britain, in view of the Soviet's willingness to grant an armistice, advised Poland to ask. for an armistice. The Note adds, that Britain believes the Soviet will grant peace on fair terms. It waives the suggestion London conference of the League of Nations, and issues a denial of the Daily News' statement. It points out that the League never offered mediation between Poland and the Soviet. The subject was never brought before the league, and the suggestion that any member of the league's secretariat endeavored to persuade Roumania or any other country to undertake hostilities against Russia was entirely false. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

OVERTURES FOR ARMISTICE. Paris, July 23. Advices from Warsaw state that the Polish Council of National Defence i's sending a request to Moscow for an immediate armistice on the lines Mr. Lloyd George suggested.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANY'S POSITION. Herr Meyer, German Charge d'Affairs, called M. Millerand's direct attention to the danger to Germany by the Bolshevik advance into Poland. M. Millerand, in reply, said he would only deal with the situation after receipt of the Allied Mission's report. The Matin states that the immensity of the mistake during the peace negotiations, of imagining that peace in Europe could be settled without taking Russia into account is now visible. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FATE OF WARSAW. London, July 23. Uhe Warsaw correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that the Russians are pressing along the main roads Reading to Poland.; The Polish divisions, some of which have ceased to count, are short of ammunition, and exhausted and dispirited by a 150-mile retreat in torrid weather. The situation indicates that Warsaw will be sacked within ten days, unless adequate pressure compels the Soviet to suspend the advance.

News from the southern front shows that Budenny's cavalry broke the Polish line and pressed towards Lemberg, but was cut off by the Poles. Budenuy has already lost a brigade.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.